The Rare Urbach-Wiethe disease and Autism
Medical students say that Neurology is the discipline of medicine that exalts the memorization of foreign words and eponyms. In Neurology there are endless facts surrounding names that go back […]
Archivos Mensuales: septiembre 2013
Conductas autolesivas, teoria de la mente, torpeza, la atencion en conjunto: explicandolo todo con la misma teoria
Siempre tendre el grato recuerdo de haber visto a Mel Kaplan examinar pacientes autistas para un estudio de lentes prismáticos que se estaba llevando a cabo en mi laboratorio. […]
A Cautionary Note on the Use of Transcraneal Magnetic Stimulation in Autism
For many years now my group has used Transcraneal Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) to treat autism. We had the distinction of having the first published article on the subject, and have […]
Conductas autolesivas y el autismo
A menudo he oído decir que alrededor del 20 al 30% de personas con un trastorno del espectro autista (TEA) presentan síntomas de irritabilidad y/o agresión, incluyendo estados rápidamente cambiantes […]
Self-injurious behaviors, clumsiness, motor stereotypies, faulty facial recognition, the bothersome nature of change, joint attention and theory of mind in autism: putting it all together
I will always remember seeing Mel Kaplan examine autistic patients for a prism lens study that was being conducted at my laboratory. One young participant, despite having his parents around, […]
El tallo del cerebro y el autismo
El tallo del cerebro del sistema nervioso sirve para enlaza al cerebro con la médula espinal. Esta estructura se divide anatómicamente en diferentes partes, de arriba a abajo, estas son: […]
Self-Injurious behaviors and autism
I have often heard that about 20 to 30% of individuals with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) will exhibit significant symptoms of irritability and/or aggression including quickly changing moods, severe […]
El síndrome de Ehlers-Danlos y el autismo
Este es el primero de varios blogs que describen cómo una variedad de condiciones, que manifiestan sintomatología autista en una alta proporción de casos, actúan a través del mismo mecanismo: […]
Stephen M Edelson, PhD
Steve Edelson envisions autism research as a moving car. The chauffeurs of the car, making it move forwards or in the right direction, are people like Bernard Rimland or Temple […]
Cortical Chauvinism 